Solitary Man
Gold Member
Man, are you bringing back the memories. Hit the turning break too hard and you'd stall it; hit the wrong rut and you'd better be holding on for dear life; that thing wore my @$$ out for about 5 years.
The cub, although once popular isn’t a good farm tractor. They’re a nice collector item at best.#Farmall #Cub-Still A Good Tractor For Your Small #Farm?
For a 9hp tractor a Cub has plenty of weight.The cub, although once popular isn’t a good farm tractor. They’re a nice collector item at best.
They lack several useful features; 1) power, 2)adequate weight, 3) live or independent PTO, 4) three point hitch, 5) good sources for the required non-standard (non 3 pt.) implements, safety features, such as ROPS. In summary, NO.
Yea I guess 245,000 tractors over 30 plus years. You are right they must have been a POS.I have 6 cubs and yes they are useless for any REAL work---- reasons? under powered , the gears are too fast for any usefull job in the garden and too big for most gardens.---- no standard pto, so that use is out.
I made a 3-pt hitch for one of mine and use it for a sprayer with 12 gallon electric tank on top of my water bar that it will pull only 4 inches deep, so the water bar idea was not a success ! lol---ended up putting it on the SA.
As a farm tractor they are useless!--- THAT'S why so many are around after 70 years,--- NOT because they were ever a good tractor or well built cause they aint!
They are just expensive toys!
Collectors want them cause they are easy to haul to shows on a 5x10 single axle trailer or in a pickup truck bed!
Why don't we wear them out? They do wear but the beautiful thing about them is they are repairable. I do not need a computer to figure out what is wrong with it. I do not need a dealer to make any computer adjustments. The thing is well thought out and can be repaired with simple hand tools.How many of them are so limited in o'all ability that we don't wear them out doing real farm work? How many hrs/yr does a Cub spend in a garden? I'm harder on my tractors using the FEL, grapples, and PTO driven implements. (flail, tiller)
I have several film-type cameras, haven't worn one out, and don't use them much anymore. I'm sure there were plenty of them made and that I'm not the only one who keeps a few around as long as they still work ok. I might use a Cub a lot more, but it wouldn't be my 'main' or my only tractor. 'Right tool for the job' doesn't mean for every job. JMHO
It's a 140.Which model is this? Was down by a local strawberry farm